The Luzhniki Stadium has a capacity of more than 80,000 fans, with Manchester United and Chelsea each sharing 30,000 tickets, with the remaining 20,000 tickets sold out except for sponsors and some UEFA dignitaries. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Amid the shouts of more than 80,000 people, at 22:45 local time, the referee blew the whistle and the 2007/2008 Champions League final officially began.

Chelsea kick-off first.

Manchester United and Chelsea have met three times this season, with Manchester United winning all three of their games and holding an absolute advantage.

Although Chelsea have had a strong record against Manchester United over the past few seasons, they were not underdog at heart, and they were a little cautious after the opening.

Perhaps it had a lot to do with their first Champions League final, with two consecutive mistakes in less than three minutes.

Manchester United, though, are no better, with three players in their starting line-up having experience of Champions League finals, but the rest of the squad is playing in the Champions League final for the first time, so nervousness is inevitable.

Even their number one star, Cristiano Ronaldo, mixed garlic under his feet when he broke through, and fell down with his left foot and right foot, directly giving the ball to Chelsea.

The start was a flurry of mistakes from both sides, but the United and Chelsea players were all over the place, and after just a few minutes, they slowly settled into the atmosphere and the attack began to threaten.

Hargreaves received a pass from his teammate on the right side of the field, dodged the angle and crossed with his feet.

Apparently the Chelsea players were reluctant to allow him to cross with such ease, and Ashley Cole stretched out his leg to interfere with Hargreaves' pass, and the ball bounced off his leg and straight towards goal.

Wow!

An exclamation immediately rang out in the stadium.

Ashley Cole watched the changed trajectory of the soccer ball fly towards the goal, and his heart sank.

If this goal is scored, you can imagine how much pressure he will be under, so he immediately prayed silently in his heart: God forbid, this goal must not be scored!

Although the brain was severely traumatized, this did not affect Cech's reaction speed.

When the ball hit Ashley Cole's leg to create a touchline, Cech made the first judgment and the rest was simple, with a side-pounce hand pressing the ball straight towards the goal onto the turf.

Immediately there was a round of applause and cheers in the stadium.

It was clearly a celebration of Cech's calm save.

Ashley Cole breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Cech holding the ball firmly, and then immediately rushed forward down the flanks as Chelsea's counter-attack began.

After Abou took over, he invited the European champion coach Jose Mourinho, so this Chelsea team has been branded as Mourinho since Abou became the owner.

Jose Mourinho has built his own big picture here, and Abu has been waving a cheque book all over the world to buy people.

The two wings fly together, this is Mourinho's capital to come to the Premier League to play the world, relying on the tough defense of the midfield and the sharp counterattack ability of the wings, Mourinho won two consecutive Premier League championships when he entered Chelsea.

Although he is now out of the club, Grant has not changed the team much, which is the main reason why Chelsea have been able to reach the Champions League final despite the turmoil of this season.

Chelsea's counter-attacks were quick, with the two midfielders Frank Lampard and Michael Ballack at hand, and the ball was quickly passed to Ashley Cole, who rushed up front.

Hargreaves was the first to stand in the way of Ashley Cole.

England team-mate Ashley Cole is no stranger to Hargreaves.

Hargreaves, who has a strong fighting spirit, is a difficult person, and once he is entangled, it is more difficult to complete the breakthrough.

But Ashley Cole has the magic trick to restrain Hargreaves - speed!

When he encountered Hargreaves, Ashley Cole went straight to life. The outside instep slammed the ball forward and accelerated straight past him. However, Ashley Kerr ignored the field factor, and when he caught up with the football to face Brown's defense, when he tried to brake and smash the ball to dodge the gap, he couldn't fully dodge the angle, and the kick-off cross hit Brown directly and bounced off the sideline, winning a sideline ball. Then the touchline threw the ball directly over the defender's head, but Ferdinand pushed it out.

As in the FA Cup final, Yu Liang was rarely directly involved in the attack in this game.

From the beginning to the present, he has spent most of his time in midfield.

Defensively, he is also a barrier in the midfield, constantly disrupting Frank Lampard and Ballack.

Seeing Ferdinand push the ball out, Yu Liang, who had his back to the attacking direction, turned his head to observe whether there were teammates on the two wings for the first time, and then quickly rushed towards the football landing point.

Meanwhile, Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack also sprinted from the edge of the box towards the ball.

It's a bit difficult to get the ball before Ballack and make a turnaround pass.

And in order to form a rapid counterattack, there can be no delay.

Glancing at Carrick who rushed out behind Barak, Yu Liang immediately stretched out his hand and pointed to the gap next to Barak, and Carrick ran towards the gap in understanding.

Yu Liang's movements, Barak saw them all. Although I don't know what's going on behind him, I can roughly guess his intentions.

So when I rushed to the landing point of the football, I immediately moved to the side. Even if you can't block Yu Liang's pass, you can interfere with it with your body.

But just as Barak moved to the side, Yu Liang took the lead in grabbing the football, and without waiting for the football to land, he directly headed back.

When Ballack rushed towards the landing spot, in addition to Carrick, Hargreaves on the right also rushed over.

Yu Liang motioned for Carrick to run in neutral to interfere with Barak.

After rubbing back, Yu Liang quickly turned around, Hargreaves took advantage of the situation and passed straight, and the ball returned to Yu Liang's feet.

After completing the wall-hitting combination, Yu Liang took two steps and encountered the Blues' iron gate Makelele, and immediately knocked it cross, while signaling Carrick to cross diagonally to the left.

Carrick, who was unguarded, stopped the football and adjusted two steps, and directly crossed the head of Essien with a long diagonal pass, and accurately found Ronaldo who was cutting forward.

However, it was a pity that Carrick's pass was not advanced enough, and Ronaldo had to reduce his speed to stop the ball.

Although he gave Essien time to return to defense, Ronaldo also took advantage of the time difference between Essien's defense and his own stop to form a breakthrough.

When Ronaldo stopped the ball, he paused, and Essien, who accelerated back to defense, immediately reduced his speed and stuck the inside line, not giving Ronaldo an inside cut or cross.

But just when Essien had just finished his defensive position, Ronaldo suddenly started and threw the ball away directly.

After forming an inward cut, Cristiano Ronaldo burst into the penalty area to attract Terry's defense, and then suddenly changed direction to dribble the ball towards the baseline and then pulled back again, after dodging the gap, he shot directly with his feet, and the football flew directly towards the far end of the goal. Because Terry blocked Cech's view in the process of defending, by the time Cech spotted Ronaldo's shot, it was too late to make a save, and he could only watch the football fly into the goal in front of his eyes.

'The goal went in, Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored in the 17th minute of the first half to give Manchester United the lead. (To be continued.) )